Pete.
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I just thought I'd record the installation of my DRO that came today. This is not going to be a 1000-page epic just a rundown of the installation techniques. Hopefully someone can draw inspiration from it.
First job (because it's the easy bit is fit the x-axis scale. The bed is quite flat but not quite good enough so I had to make some 3-point stand-offs to hold the carrier.
Here's one of the stand-offs fitted. I have milled a groove in the front to hold the support rail and machined away most of the back leaving just two corner 'feet'. Only had to remove a couple of mm for this machine. The M6 hole is tapped into the bed and the M8 grub screw is for jacking it square.
Here's the rail fitted in the stand-off.
Underside view showing the feet. It's important to use a 3-point system for stuff like this. 4-points is no good it would drive you crazy trying to get it level.
How to square the stand-off to the bed.
Once it was all square I super-glued the stand-offs to the rail and levelled it off. The super-glue isn't really necessary I just got fed up with the blocks jumping out of the very shallow channel I milled for them.
Now I have a good base to fit the rail to which will make adjusting it easy. More later...
First job (because it's the easy bit is fit the x-axis scale. The bed is quite flat but not quite good enough so I had to make some 3-point stand-offs to hold the carrier.
Here's one of the stand-offs fitted. I have milled a groove in the front to hold the support rail and machined away most of the back leaving just two corner 'feet'. Only had to remove a couple of mm for this machine. The M6 hole is tapped into the bed and the M8 grub screw is for jacking it square.
Here's the rail fitted in the stand-off.
Underside view showing the feet. It's important to use a 3-point system for stuff like this. 4-points is no good it would drive you crazy trying to get it level.
How to square the stand-off to the bed.
Once it was all square I super-glued the stand-offs to the rail and levelled it off. The super-glue isn't really necessary I just got fed up with the blocks jumping out of the very shallow channel I milled for them.
Now I have a good base to fit the rail to which will make adjusting it easy. More later...